Trump, San Francisco and National Guard
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With President Donald Trump’s threat to deploy the National Guard to San Francisco looming, the city has joined with over 40 other local governments across the country in an effort to have the United States Supreme Court block a similar deployment in Chicago.
Federal troops, if deployed, might have broader freedom to arrest suspects in San Francisco if the Insurrection Act is invoked by President Trump.
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie is pushing back against President Donald Trump’s proposal to send federal troops to the city.
Professional golfer Phil Mickelson has called on Donald Trump to "save" San Francisco as the president weighs sending National Guard troops to the city.
A federal judge in Chicago is expected to sign off Wednesday on a 30-day extension banning the deployment of National Guard troops to Illinois. The expected extension comes two weeks after the judge partially granted a temporary restraining order against National Guard deployment in Illinois and just under a week after a federal appeals court rejected the Trump administration’s request to lift the order.